Deck 15: Organized Crime: Law Enforcement

Question 1

hich of the following is not one of the three restraints on law enforcement efforts in general and on organized crime law enforcement in particular?

A) constitutional restraints
B) jurisdictional limitations
C) intertwining problems of corruption and informants
D) executive orders

Answer 1

D

Question 2

hich law enforcement strategy requires officers/agents to seek out indications of criminal behavior?

A) Reactive
B) Proactive
C) Responsive
D) Preventative

Answer 2

B

Question 3

he right to counsel, right to be tried by an impartial jury, and right to confront witnesses are ____________ U.S. onstitutional rights.

A) First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment
B) First Amendment
C) Fifth Amendment
D) Sixth Amendment

Answer 3

D

Question 4

he ____________ law enforcement strategy encourages citizens to report crimes, then the agency responds.

A) Reactive
B) Proactive
C) Responsive
D) Preventative

Question 5

n the wake of the Reconstruction era, when the Union Army occupied the states of the Confederacy, Congress enacted the 1878 ______________ prohibiting the U.S. rmy from performing civilian law enforcement.

A) Occupation Reform Act
B) Reconstruction Act
C) Posse Comitatus Act
D) Unification Act

Question 6

__________ assists law enforcement agencies with investigative activities that transcend national boundaries.

A) The FBI
B) The CIA
C) The DOD
D) INTERPOL

Question 7

hich of the following is(are) incentive(s) for informants to help law enforcement?

A) financial reward
B) vengeance
C) securing leniency for themself
D) all of these

Question 8

hich branch of the government is responsible for combating organized crime?

A) judicial branch
B) executive branch
C) legislative branch
D) allocative branch

Question 9

he primary responsibility of the Department of ___________ is the collection of revenues due the federal government.

A) Homeland security
B) Justice
C) the Treasury
D) Defense

Question 10

hich restraint on law enforcement restrains the U.S. rom compelling foreign nations' police to comply with the Fourth Amendment and the exclusionary rule when seizing evidence from U.S. itizens abroad?

A) constitutional restraints
B) jurisdictional limitations
C) intertwining problems of corruption and informants
D) executive orders

Question 11

IG special agents of the Division of Labor Racketeering conduct investigations in three general areas. Which of the following is not one of those areas?

A) employee benefit plans
B) labor-management relations
C) internal union affairs
D) internal political party affairs

Question 12

he exclusionary rule, which provides that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment cannot be entered as evidence in a criminal trial, is a _______________ on law enforcement.

A) constitutional restraint
B) jurisdictional limitation
C) intertwining problem of corruption and informants
D) executive order prohibition

Question 13

he Department of Justice is headed by:

A) the Attorney General
B) the President
C) the Vice President
D) the Speaker of the House

Question 14

he Regional Information Sharing System (RISS) was established in 1974 to do which of the following?.

A) Assist criminal justice agencies to remove criminal conspiracies.
B) Provide locally-based services to law enforcement agencies.
C) Provide controlled systematic updating of criminal justice information.
D) all of these.

Question 15

here was Whitey Bulger captured in 2011?

A) Chicago, Illinois
B) Boston, Massachusetts
C) Santa Monica, California
D) New York City

Question 16

he origins of the FBI date back to the establishment of the Department of Justice in:

A) 1870
B) 1900
C) 1920
D) 1950

Question 17

ho was the FBI informant who, in 1964, found the bodies of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, three men killed by the KKK in Mississippi?

A) Gregory Scarpa (the "Grim Reaper")
B) James ("Whitey") Bulger
C) Steve ("The Rifleman") Flemmi
D) Raymond Patriarca

Question 18

he Secret Service is part of which federal government agency?

A) Department of Justice
B) Department of the Treasury
C) Department of Homeland Security
D) United States Postal Service

Question 19

he right to remain silent is a ___________ U.S. onstitutional right.

A) First Amendment
B) Second Amendment
C) Fifth Amendment
D) Sixth Amendment

Question 20

he Drug Enforcement Administration and the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives agencies are part of which federal government agency?

A) Department of Justice
B) Department of the Treasury
C) Department of Homeland Security
D) United States Postal Service

Question 21

he Postal Inspection Service investigates which of the following?

A) the use of the mail to conduct fraud.
B) the mailing of drugs.
C) the mailing of child pornography
D) all of these

Question 22

mmigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) is an agency of which federal department?

A) Department of Justice
B) Department of the Treasury
C) Department of Homeland Security
D) Department of Health and Human Services

Question 23

Organized crime is usually a priority item for municipal police departments.

Question 24

he Witness Security Program was first authorized in _____.

A) 1960
B) 1970
C) 1980
D) 1990

Question 25

he agency that is closest to a federal police force is ______________.

A) FBI
B) DEA
C) ATF
D) Secret Service

Question 26

orking closely with informants is a potentially corrupting influence.

Question 27

oast Guard personnel are law enforcement officers who do not have to establish probable cause prior to boarding a vessel.

Question 28

Members of a grand jury are agents of the government.

Question 29

Federalism provides a level of inefficiency that handicaps efforts to deal with organized criminal activity.

Question 30

he Fourth Amendment and the exclusionary rule do not govern seizure of evidence from U.S. itizens in foreign countries by those nations' police.

Question 31

hich agency in the Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for coordinating and developing nationwide programs for responding to organized crime?

A) Office of the Attorney General
B) the U.S. Attorney in each judicial district
C) the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section (OCRS)
D) FBI

Question 32

here is no national police force in the United States.

Question 33

he Judiciary Act of _____ created the Office of the Attorney General.

A) 1776
B) 1789
C) 1889
D) 1970

Question 34

hich branch of the government is responsible for trying organized crime?

A) judicial branch
B) executive branch
C) legislative branch
D) allocative branch

Question 35

Proactive law enforcement officers often must conceal their identities and otherwise deceive the criminals they are stalking.

Question 36

hat did the 1981 amendments to the Posse Comitatus Act provide?

A) a greater level of military involvement in civilian drug enforcement.
B) the tracking of suspect ships and planes.
C) the use of military pilots to transport civilian enforcement personnel.
D) all of these provisions were added in 1981 to the Posse Comitatus Act.

Question 37

nformants will be truthful if they are paid enough.

Question 38

he 1878 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the U.S. rmy from performing civilian law enforcement.

Question 39

he Customs Service and Border Protection (CBP) is a part of which federal department?

A) Homeland Security
B) IRS Criminal Investigation
C) Justice
D) Treasury

Question 40

ow many federal judicial districts are there?

A) 50
B) 100
C) 94
D) 6

Question 41

hat is the role of the Criminal Investigation Division (CI) of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in organized crime law enforcement, and what activities does the CI perform to fulfill that role?

Question 42

In the federal system, _______________ is a body of 23 citizens empowered to operate with a quorum of 16 and requiring 12 votes for an indictment.

Question 43

riefly describe the events that took place between James ("Whitey") Bulger and his FBI case agent, John Connelly, beginning in 1994.

Question 44

he investigative mission of the ________________ is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States.

Question 45

escribe the Secret Service's role in investigating identity theft/fraud.

Question 46

he top priority of the Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (OIG) is given to ________________ domination of labor unions and/or employee benefit plans.

Question 47

hat is FinCEN and what activities does it perform?

Question 48

hat is meant by "intelligence" in law enforcement, and what are the two types of intelligence?

Question 49

oast Guard personnel are sometimes assigned to U.S. avy ships assigned to drug interdiction, because military personnel are prohibited from making arrests of civilians by the _______________ Act.

Question 50

______________ acts as a central repository for professional and technical expertise on transnational organized crime.

Question 51

hat is the role of the U.S. arshals service in the Witness Security Program and what activities does it perform to fulfill that role?

Question 52

hat is an IRS whistleblower?

Question 53

The Coast Guard is a part of the Department of ________________.

Question 54

hat is electronic surveillance, and what are some of its problems?

Question 55

In intelligence gathering, an analyst uses the methods of social science research, and central to this approach is the _______________.

Question 56

The ______________ to the U.S. onstitution provides that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."

Question 57

State the role of the ATF National Tracing Center (NTC) and the activities it performs to fulfill that role.

Question 58

Briefly describe the events surrounding the bizarre agent-confidential informant relationship involving the case of Gregory Scarpa of the Colombo crime Family and his FBI handler.

Question 59

merican efforts against drug trafficking are limited by _____________ boundaries.

Question 60

he _____________ Amendment and Title III of the _______________ Act of 1968 place restrictions on the way the government can secure this information.